On a superficial level, Cha Cha Real Smooth is extremely similar to Shithouse, Cooper Raiff’s debut from 2020.
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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
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Walk the Line (2005)
Here it is — the film that sent the musical biopic to the point of no return, the ultimate distillation of the life a complex and compromised artist into a Hollywood three act structure.
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Ray (2004)
There is a fine line between an “impressive” performance and a “great” one, and I think Jamie Foxx treads that line throughout the entirety of Ray.
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Sometimes my critical faculties are short-circuited and I can only gush. Here goes.
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Sometimes a movie just clicks in a way that is totally subjective. Especially comedies.
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Teen Beach Movie (2013)
I’m not sure a film has ever more steadily improved in my estimation than Teen Beach Movie, the Disney Channel musical from 2013.
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Max Keeble’s Big Move (2001)
Max Keeble’s Big Move is 100% tween boy cheese, but it’s exactly the kind of cheese I love
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Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Dumb and Dumber is a comedy where many of the broadest, best-known gags have lost their luster, but the the stuff on the fringes absolutely slays me.
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Batman Begins (2005)
Batman Begins remains one of the great comic book movies because Christopher Nolan captures a really compelling tug of war between two competing forces: gritty realism and operatic mythmaking.
I was 14 when The Transporter series kicked off, which is the absolute perfect age to be enraptured by its fun-spirited but immensely dumb action shenanigans.